Ellen Barkin Quotes
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
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Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.
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I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.
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Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
